It´s snow in the air..
by Kaja Lund

Comment:
Good work. Bringing the hut and tree further into frame wouldn't hurt the composition - you could keep it that close to the bottom, and keep the impact of the negative space, but like this it is really only cursorily in shot.

The Alley
by Toddh

Comment:
Beautiful - I have little more to say :-) Perfect execution, perfect composition. I'd almost buy this, except i think the moonlight edging the top of the building doesn't work for me - have no idea why, even after a long look, but I think it takes away some of the two-dimensional quality of the building's facade. Great work.

Illusion
by Spanish_Grease

Comment:
Neat trick. Lines at the bottom of frame and where background edges meet are a shame, and there seem to be one or two markes that could happily have been cloned out. Like the colour, and your handling of light is an object lesson.

Anastasia
by nborton

Comment:
Of it's type this is well done - but you've taken the skin smoothing trick so far it's reminiscent of the worst kind of over-processed glamour photography, and effectively taken all the humanity out of your subject. It's also left a peculiar shading around the inside of the left eye. Just too much of the selective blurring, really. Lighting is good, catch-light in the eyes is good, naturalness of the model is good.

Wilmslow Wolves
by tomlewis1980

Comment:
Great shot, great moment - and with a little mystery too (where the hell are the hoops' three-quarters?) - and a great study in effort. 9

Sunday Morning Scrum
by jonpink

Comment:
Good work - I'd guess that this is quite early in the game, from the cleanliness of those white shorts, but it has a real feel of the driven-into-the-ground exhaustion of the end of a game, when things almost grind to a halt like boxers who've beaten each other to a standstill. If only it weren't for the guy half hidden behind the no. 17 it'd be a great shot.

As the World Turns
by dsidwell

Comment:
Lots of good stuff here, though i think the feeling of spinning is actually missing - this looks more like a simple blurring - the feeling is the blurs don't follow the curve of the globe. Neat idea though.

Pale Outlines
by readme

Comment:
Almost, almost ... my questions would be: cropping - why so much negative space (or alternatively, why so little)? Why so little contrast range ... I understand what your title implies, but would a touch more light and shade really hurt it so much? the curves and planes of these objects ought to allow for a wonderful range of shade, and I think you've bleached that out of it a little with the lighting.

Water Colors
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Now then - let's hear it for 1:1 aspect ratios :-)

Ed

Sunrise
by dan_pendleton

Comment:
Well done Dan - the purity and cleanness of that blue is quite extraordinary: and you scored more tens than mine - not enough 9's then?

Message edited by author 2003-12-18 13:25:24.